Hello,

All my grown life I have had dreams on the same theme; I am looking for hotels or I am staying at hotels.

Last night there was an interesting new twist to this dream theme. In most of my hotel dreams I sneak into hotel rooms, passing reception without registering or paying. I live at the hotel without any one knowing or I leave the hotel without paying.

In the dream of last night, I was yet again staying in a hotel where the staff did not know that I was there. It was a nice, expensive hotel - not like the hotels I normally stay in in my dreams. I usually dream I stay in really shabby places. In this dream it appeared like I had already stayed 2-3 nights and had all my gear in a certain suite. I had both my cats there. I was standing in the lobby and was thinking about maybe going to reception and actually booking the suite to prolong my stay. I remember thinking "How will I get around the problem that my stuff is already in the room that I now want to book? Should I try to get back into the room, smuggle out my stuff and then pretend to just arrive? Or should I go and ask to prolong my stay and pretend that I was already a paying guest those other nights?" The twist in this dream was also that I considered getting my stuff and going to a cheaper shabby hotel - where I have stayed in OTHER DREAMS. A hotel that only exist in the dream world. In the end I decided to go and try to get the things out of my room. When I walked into the corridor leading to my suite there was a laundry trolly there - and I realised with panic that they were coming to clean the room! How would I get my luggage and my cats passed the cleaners without them alerting reception? The dream ends there.

In all my hotel dreams the most important thing seems to be able to stay as long as possible in a certain city or place - but that I do not have the means to pay for it.

I have read about Hotel dreams interpretation, but I am still puzzled about this constant move from one hotel to another - always sneaking in or out.

Do you have any suggestions what it could mean? And why it is recurring thorugh out my life, altough my real life situation is different or changing? Maybe I should add that I have travelled the world a lot in my life and stayed in more hotels then I can remember. Always as a paying guest 'though. *smile*

Happy New Year!
Karin

I do not know your specific life circumstances. So, my
comments must be taken with a grain of salt. I just hope
that maybe something will strike a cord in you and help.

The nice, expensive hotel implies some change in your life
circumstances where you have achieved something better.
You are concerned about the change and you want to return
to your previous well established, but possibly less, situation.
There is emotional comfort in past known situations over new and
sometimes improved lifestyles.

The hotel symbol might be an implication that you haven't settled
down in your personal life. The recurring nature implies that you
have been concerned about this for some time. Possibly, this
started right after moving out of your childhood home.

The laundry trolly implies an authority figure or figures
that can bring bad consequences to you.

Thus, there might be an issue with feelings that you might not deserve
the things that you have because of some event in your past or possibly
feedback from a parent or teacher in your past (possibly an overly
critical person from your past).

You are concerned that somebody will notice you have these things but
you feel that you didn't work for them or gain them through proper
application of effort. In my opinion, this is some old memories or
feelings that you are holding onto and they are not relavant to your
current life experiences. This is one thing that the dream might be
telling you.

Strangely enough, when I read the post, I read "laundry troll" which
was to me a combination of authority figure and recentment towards
the authority figure. This could just be my own issues with authority
figures.

Hello and thank your for your ideas about my recurring dream.

Well, I'm pretty sure that the basis for the dream: the hotel stays is due to being a restless person who has not settled down. My old school friends says that out of everyone back in school, I'm the person who changes the most and the most of often. I am also the one who has never stayed in relationships or had a family or stuck to the same job.

Maybe that you are right; that the feeling connected to being a non-paying guest has to do with my feeling of "having come into money and creatures comforts without really paying for it". It is true. I some times long for the times when I didn't own so much stuff, when I had no means BUT a much more interesting life.

Another side of the hotel dreams could be that it is an non permanent arrangement. Nothing in my life is permanent. I am always going somewhere else; be it a new career or a new life project. I should say that the feeling of travelling in the dream is positive, but there is a great deal of anxiety about finding somewhere to rest my head - the accomodation.

I am unsure about the authority figure. Could it be another side of me? I used to think that it was my father or my boss(es) etc that used to drive me forward and critisize me; but I have realised that I am my own stricktest judge and critic.

I'll ponder some more. Thank you and have a happy new year!